Tag: Space
He was in space and back! Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa reveals new goal
One of the billionaires who traveled to space was Yusaku Maezawa, who is known as the 30th richest person in Japan and returned to his country last month after successfully…
Could the primitive atmosphere of Mercury have had an impact on the overall composition of the planet?
A team of researchers from the University of Bern sought to model the primitive atmosphere of Mercury, created by the evaporation of the magma ocean from the young planet. The…
Turkey’s first pocket satellite “Grizu-263A” is getting ready to go into space! To be sent with Elon Musk’s company
Turkey’s first pocket satellite, Grizu-263A, was launched in Zonguldak by the Grizu-263 team, which included students from Bülent Ecevit University’s Faculty of Engineering. Turkey’s first pocket satellite Grizu-263A, which will…
Space: after a good year, 2022 promises to be exciting for manned flights
After the very good year 2021 in terms of manned flights, which we will briefly summarize for you here, 2022 will be an even more exciting year with many firsts.…
Operation successful: the Webb space telescope will be able to be protected from the Sun
The James Webb Space Telescope team has fully deployed the spacecraft’s sunshade in space, a key step in their preparation for science operations. Next step: the secondary mirror. The sun…
15 events on Earth in 2021 as seen from space
At the end of the year, Planet and the editorial staff of Futura offer you a retrospective in images of 15 outstanding news from the Earth, seen from space. You…
Pockets of life in the atmosphere of Venus?
Despite its inhospitable appearance, Venus could be capable of harboring life, especially in its atmosphere: unexplained chemical anomalies are detected there, including the possible presence of ammonia. MIT researchers are…
an NGO sets a sad record in Spain
During the year 2021, the Caminando Fronteras association recorded 4,404 dead or missing persons, including 628 women and 205 children, among the arrivals of migrants via the seaway. An increase…
Here’s everything the Webb Space Telescope will observe for the first year
The launch of the James Webb Space Telescope is announced for this fall. Finally ! Preparations are in full swing. The project managers have just announced the list of 286…
Pluto: the dynamics of nitrogen ice in the Sputnik plain finally explained?
Studying Sputnik Planitia, a large impact crater filled with ice of nitrogen, methane and carbon monoxide, the New Horizons probe observed polygonal shapes separated by small hollows on the surface…